Tom Israel is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ingleside Investors (aka A.C. Israel Enterprises, Inc.), a family holding company specializing in private investments. He formerly served as the Chief Financial Officer for ACLI International Incorporated (1966 – 1981), a worldwide commodity import/export company. ACLI was acquired by Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 1981.

Tom is a Director of Griffin Industrial Realty, Inc. (NASDAQ) and Ingleside Investors and serves on the Board of Citizens Committee for NYC. He formerly served as a Trustee and Treasurer of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and is currently a member of its Investment Committee. He is an Associate of the Yale Child Study Center and on the Dean’s Council of the Yale Medical School. Tom is a Trustee Emeritus of Riverdale Country School in Riverdale, New York and a former Trustee of the Master’s School in Dobbs Ferry.

Tom has been a director of the following public companies:

Peoples Drug Stores, Inc. (NYSE)

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (NYSE)

Culbro Corp.(NYSE)

NOEL Group (NASDAQ)

Glenayre Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ)

Asbury Automotive Group ((NYSE)

He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1962 and from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 1966.